Prevocational Education (core subject) (teacher training) (B.Sc.)

The bachelors program Prevocational Education with teacher training as a core subject is the first step towards acquiring the qualifications needed to teach Economy-Work-Technology (Wirtschaft-Arbeit-Technik, WAT) at Sekundarstufe I.

This degree program focuses on human labor, particularly gainful employment and domestic work. Students in this program are taught an integrated combination of technical content and pedagogical skills in the areas of economics, technology, and housework. The study subject prevocational education and the school subject economy-work-technology thus promote the development of everyday skills for life management and design. The curriculum places particular importance on action-oriented methods and training in prevocational teaching workshops. Technical knowledge targeted specifically at school teaching as well as further pedagogical and educational skills ensure schools remain the focus of the degree program. You will learn different concepts and strategies of learning, education, and schooling. During a six-week professional development internship at a school, you will gain initial teaching experience as well as explore pedagogical-didactic issues.

The degree program can be selected as a core subject and is supplemented with an additional subject at Freie Universitt Berlin or Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin.

Upon completion of your degree in Prevocational Education, you will be able to apply subject-didactic concepts from economics, technology and domestic work to the central activities of a teacher of economics, labor, and technology, and introduce job-related methodological and media skills. You will be capable of independent scientific work, critical thinking, and acting with social responsibility. Your approach to inclusion and heterogeneity will be both cross-cutting and interdisciplinary.

Every bachelor's degree program at TU Berlin requires applicants to possess a university entrance qualification certificate. Generally, the Abitur serves as the university entrance qualification certificate. If you do not have a formal university entrance qualification, you may still be able to study at TU Berlin if you can provide proof of certain professional qualifications.

The Prevocational Education bachelors program is taught in German. If you are applying with a foreign school-leaving certificate, you must provide proof of German skills at a specific level. This is a prerequisite for admission.

As this study program is significantly made up of technical, economic, and work-related content, you should have basic knowledge of these areas as well as be interested in pedagogical and technical issues.